[sheflug] windows virtual server

[David Willington <david.willington [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All

I'm setting up moodle for a school. The test site is running on a LAMP
server quite happily, but it's been suggested by the technicians that
the production server could run on a LAMP server within windows virtual
server, the advantage being that they can take snapshots of the LAMP
server for backup purposes without having to get involved with the LAMP
server itself. There seem to be a couple of drawbacks
1. Either windows or linux could go wrong
2. There are additional costs for them (the windows license, greater
server overheads)
My original plan had been to show them how a LAMP server works so that
(over time) they become more confident in maintaining it, and their
solution, to some extent, puts a barrier up here albeit probably only
psychological. Can anyone suggest any other reasons why hosting in a
windows virtual server would be a bad (or good) idea? I've also
mentioned that we could host on windows / IIS, but as I've almost no
experience of IIS it'd further blur the lines over who's responsible for
what and what might go wrong.

Thanks

David


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